Category Archives: "DINNER"

Are you needing a little bro-mance in your bro-coli relationship? This pakora recipe will add a little spice into the mix and are accompanied by a delicious sour cherry and date chutney to sweeten the deal. The broccoli in these pakoras is left in florets which gives the dish texture and leaves it less doughy than

This Vegan Raw Caramelised Onion Tart is the slightly more in depth grown up cousin to our recipe for the Vegan SpringRaw Quiche. Where the Spring Quiche is more of an assembly job, this tart requires a separate making of the tart casing. This in turn makes this a slightly higher brow and textured recipe.

All of a sudden the days are feeling longer, the sun is a providing a little more heat, you start noticing locally grown asparagus popping up in stores and you start happily blowing kisses to any random passerby on the street. In other words you are starting to catch the excitement of spring and –

Legend has it that the Margherita pizza was created – and subsequently named – in honour of Queen Margherita of Savoy, with ingredients to made resemble the colours of the Italian flag. And what an amazing traditional recipe it has been through the hundreds of years since its creation. The Margherita pizza typifies the Italian

This Watermelon Seeds Pesto (Raw/Vegan) is super simple to make and tastes delish! Just chuck all the ingredients in a food processor (or use a mortar and pestle) and whizz until it is the consistency you want. And hey pesto! You have a yummy condiment to use on pasta, anti-pasti platters or just eat it

Chinese broccoli or Kai-lan (Gai-lan) is a fantastic tasting and healthy vegetable that can be found at bargain prices at any good asian supermarket/fresh produce shop. It basically covers the flavours and textures of bok choi, broccoli and spinach all in one. So there is no better way to treat such a delicious and versatile vegetable other

Thai food is all about the balance of sweet, sour and heat with the added freshness and aromatic quality of herbs and spices. Add the richness of coconut cream into the mix and you will have the most savoured Thai dish – Thai green curry (kaeng khiao wan), which literally means sweet green curry. I really

This is the recipe for a fantastically delicious, flavoursome and wholesome vichyssoise (potato and leek soup) with all of the rich creaminess, and without the downsides of using cream (as you shall soon see). This recipe also has a few other tweaks to take it from a simple salt-of-the-earth soup to mind blowing dish. Soup

I was sitting at a romantic little Sicilian restaurant in North Melbourne perusing the menu figuring what to order next: Caponata (a kind of eggplant/pine nut ratatouille), Spaghetti alla Siracusana (fresh anchovies, peperoncini, cherry tomato spaghetti topped with bread crumbs) or Polpette all’Agrodolce (sweet/sour meatballs). This was when my entrée came out to the table

This raw pumpkin pasta with lemon, mushroom and thyme is a recipe inspired by one of my favourite Nigella Lawson recipes. While it may not be a traditional Italian recipe, this pasta has all of the fresh clean flavours that you would expect from great Italian food. The original Nigella recipe is absolutely delicious in